He would have loved this one
One concert from the 65th annual Ojai Festival earlier this month, celebrating the reopening of Libbey Bowl, also celebrated, as each successive Festival does, founder Lawrence Morton’s commitment to preserving…
Art-to-Art Marketplace Guide
Heckaman is ‘raised up’ again
(AAPNW-IN) – Each month Heartland Artists Gallery in Plymouth, Indiana features an area artist that has made a contribution to the world of art. Opening on Wednesday, June 8,…
Small works to go on view
ARTS ASSOCIATON OF RANDOLPH COUNTY Two Sisters Show UNION CITY, INDIANA Artist Reception Thursday, June 9, 2011 7:00-9:00 pm 2011 Gourmet Gala and Charity Auction on Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:00-10:00…
Giant pussycat greets visitors
(PNAN-MT) – Fernando Botero’s “Monumental Cat with Whiskers” is on display through the fall at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings. The two-ton bronze sculpture was installed into the…
More Springtime, Mostly Baroque
Bach & Schnittke, Maria Alikhanova (flute) and Dmitri Bulgavo (oboe), Chamber Orchestra Kremlin conducted by Misha Rachlevsky, Quartz CD QTZ 2083. If you’ve got an open mind, and would…
South Africa in the Hoosier
(NWPR-IN) – Tucked away in a remote corner of northeast Indiana lays a refuge for some of the most beautiful animals in the world. This sanctuary for rescued and…
‘Fading heritage’ painter set to ‘rap’
(NWPR-OH) – Barns of the Midwest portray a story of hard work, sacrifice, loss and prosperity and family values. With each new decade, more and more of these landmarks…
Art center to have ‘barn raisin’ show
(NWPR-OH) – Going on exhibit Saturday, June 4 at the Delphos Area Art Guild, “Barns of Indiana” features a collection of 50 oil paintings by Gwen Gutwein. According to DAAG’s…
Artist Services
Need help to photograph? or Prepare your images for competition? or Write a grant proposal? or Frame your artwork? We have a wide range of high professional specialists who will…
Blacks, whites, depth and whales
Ever so often in this column we answer a few questions that have been asked of Wassenberg Art Center instructors. Q. I’VE HEARD THAT IT’S NOT GOOD TO…
Performing Arts-Theatre
“Chair-ity Art”
Artists have begun painting cast-off and Adirondack chairs in earnest for the upcoming “Chair-ity” Auction, June 3 and 4, during the ArtRageous on Main festival. The only rule is…
New show ‘write’ around the corner
(NWPR-OH) – Opening Friday, May 13 at Arts Place, Collective Center, “Letters to Ohio” is an exhibit by artist Elizabeth Kauffman, who says, ““The idea behind the show is…
Festival is a state library highlight
    (AAPNW-OH) – What more can readers of all ages and interests ask? – It’s open to all, free and no registration required – and all one has to do…
Voices to give artworks visual life
(PNAN-VA) – On Saturday, May 14 from 1:00-2:30 pm, the program, “Artistic Verses,” which is in its 18th year as well as a partnership between Peninsula Fine Arts Center…
Freshness of springtime sounds
    There has been a continuing spate of superb early music recordings this spring. As always, this is a rich and competitive genre with long term growth potential. Among the…
Everything is coming up Rosewood
(NWPR-OH) – Making a statement has never been more prevalent than when you first step into the city limits of Kettering, Ohio. It is situated in Montgomery County just…
Show has new twists this year
There has been plenty of activity here at the Wassenberg Art Center over the last couple of weeks! In addition to our current double exhibit “The Art of Therapy”…
Show about being woman
(NWPR-IN) – Opening Thursday, May 5 in the Hugh N. Ronald Gallery at Arts Place, Portland Center, “Embracing the Stitch: Fabric Chronicles” features works by Cathy Jeffers. “I have…
Wind Quintet are classical gems
(PNAN-NY) – A fresh, dynamic group of musicians has emerged to create a new angle on classical music and storytelling, making the art of music-telling stories a delightful learning…
Bravo! Bravo! Brandts
Exhibit series set to bloom again
(NWPR-OH) – Nestled in southwestern Darke County Ohio, Greenville Creek gently flows through thirty-five acres of wetland, sowing generations of history along its path. The untouched stream offers generous…
Artist sets the ‘sun’ in the Bluegrass
(AAPNW-KY) – On view through July 23 at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, “David Sharpe: Re-Defining Sunsets” exhibit features works by Owensboro, Kentucky native son,…
Event is a paying forward icon
(AAPNW-OH) – Set to ‘spring’ into action at 6:30 pm and live to 9:30 pm on Friday, April 29, the annual Dublin Arts Council Garden Party will bloom in…
Preble taps good, better, best in show
(PNAN-VA) – When artists decide how to arrange the subject within the confines of the picture space, they are using a process called “composition.” The purpose of composition is…
June show call for entries
The Wassenberg Art Center in Van Wert, Ohio has issued a call for entries for its 55th Annual June Art Exhibit. Entries will be taken Saturday and Sunday, May 21…
Gallery talk is about Devil works
(AAPNW-MI) – One of the artworks by Edgar Brierre (Haitian, born 1933) “Devil Mask” ca. 1972-4. Metal, 33-5/8 x 19-1/2 x 1-3/4 inches. Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University. Gift…
Show is ‘technically-crafty’
    (AAPNW-KY) – On view through July 23 at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, works by more than 20 international artists who used technology in their creating process, the…
Gaylor ‘flick’ is a first in show
(PNAN-NM) – Currently view at the New Mexico Museum of Art, “Kamilo” (Twisted Waters) is a video installation by Santa Fe artist Robert Gaylor. The video is the artist’s…
Show to be inspired with much ‘faith’
(AAPNW-TN) – Beginning at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 26, at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Faith Hill will the special guest musical artist at the 2011 Symphony Spring…
Exhibit is a US first
(PNAN-NM) – Set to open at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, “Folk Art of the Andes” on Sunday, April 17, is the first exhibit to…
Annual show is forever ageless
(NWPR-OH) – On Friday, April 15, from 6:30-8:30 pm at ArtSpace/Lima, “Spring Show 2011” opens with a public reception in the Ellen Nelson Gallery. The show, which marks its…
Art Workshops-Classes
FROM BEGINNER to ADANCED – Art workshops and Art classes in Watercolor, Acrylic, Drawing and Art Appreciation conducted by Pat Rayman. For those all in Ohio, check the calendars at the Wassenberg…
‘Creams of the crop’ are honored
(PNAN-ME) – It has become noted as one of the principal juried exhibitions for contemporary art in the state of Maine since its inception in 1998. The “Art Biennial”…
Show is a spring bouquet of the arts
(PNAN-CALIF) – Georgia O’Keefe said, “If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment,” and for all goers to…
Peace Garden events all about art
(PNAN-ND) – “Creative Communities: The Art of the State of North Dakota,” is the biennial Statewide Arts Conference taking place on Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6. Regardless if…
Hands of humanitarians are decade old
(AAPNW-IN) – Marking its 10th anniversary, the Clay Bowl Giving Project will not only celebrate its milestone on Thursday, April 21, but also some new additions to the agenda.…
Works are natural healers for artist
(PNAN-AK) – On Saturday, April 1 at the Anchorage Museum, Fairbanks artist Rachelle Dowdy makes her first appearance with “Juggernauts,” an exhibition of sculpture which explores the union of…
Russian trio has ‘crystal clear’ sounds
(NWPR-OH) – They are Russian musicians, Igor Sklyarov, Vladimir Perminov and Vladimir Popras, who play the glass instruments, producing deep low sounds that give birth by a stream…
‘High stake’ musical to close season
(NWPR-IN) – To be performed by the Huntington University Theatre Company, one of the most popular American musicals of all time, “Guys and Dolls” comes to the Zurcher Auditorium…
Artist gives Trifu thumbs up
(PNAN-US) – Cape Town, South Africa artist, author and actress, Leeorah Hursky has cast her vote of approval for Canadian film producer, Daria Trifu to be considered for the…
Series is part of the woodwork
(PNAN-AL) – It was in 1986 when the Huntsville Museum of Art launched “Encounters,” a series with a mission to feature works by a regional contemporary artist. Today and…
Storyteller bestowed Heritage Award
(PNAN-MT) – World-renowned songwriter, storyteller, recording artist, and television and radio personality, Red Steagall is the recipient of the 2011 Charles M. Russell Heritage Award. “Steagall is a true patriot…
Style and purpose is show’s theme
(PNAN-ME) – From portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies, “European Drawings” at the Portland Museum of Art is an exhibition that will showcase a spectrum of…
New season brings ‘mills of art’
(NWPR-OH) – Through April 24, still life paintings by Anita Tresslar from the Dayton area share the spotlight with glass creations by Berry Davis and Collette Fortin of Neptune Hot…
MFA student work next for the walls
(AAPNW-MI) – On view through April 3, at the Kresge Art Museum in East Lansing, works of art by Amy Jo Brown, Deon Foster, Clarissa R. Gerber, Jesse Howell, Ann…
Galleries join ‘art umbrellas’
(PNAN-CALIF) – Affinity Galleries and LarkGallery Online have united in series of events combining visual and performing arts entitled: “Spring Equinox.” The following events began recently with opening receptions at the Phantom…
A book with many revelations . . . . . .
Some books are read because the already words expressed serves as an endorsement about what we found in the first several pages. There are also other visual reasons that come…
Winners ‘captured’ by Judge Jividen
(NWPR-OH) – And the winners are in the Findlay Art League’s “Photo 29” show are: Best of Show, Mr. Fred Aldrich Award, Rich Kaplan for “Skyward”; First Place Award,…
What’s in a watercolor besides water?
(NWPR-OH) – “Watercolor” encompasses many mediums and techniques, and quite a few of them can be found in the Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibit which opened at the Wassenberg…